… This article lists the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2017. … Table 4 Taxonomic changes
from the Subcommitee for Fungal and Protist Viruses (changes listed here for convenience;
the natural hosts are for the most part unknown; new taxa are in bold typeface) … The
changes are now part of the official ICTV taxonomy. An up-to-date list of all …

This article lists the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses in February 2018. A total of 451 species, 69 genera, 11
subfamilies, 9 families and one new order were added to the taxonomy. The current totals at
each taxonomic level now stand at 9 orders, 131 families, 46 subfamilies, 803 genera and
4853 species. A change was made to the International Code of Virus Classification and
Nomenclature to allow the use of the names of people in taxon names under appropriate …